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I currently am working on creating a machine that will destroy a fortress after a set amount of time by letting enough magma into the fortress entrance to travel down and destroy everything and everyone inside. I am doing this to set up a challenge of seeing who much wealth I can accumulate in a set period of time, the drawback in this design, however, is the timer. So the question is, does anyone have any cool ideas for a long-term timer?

The longer it lasts (a couple of years would probably be best) the better.
Also, bonus points if there is any way to change the amount of time it goes for at the beginning.

P.S. These are only ideas for automated timers, not dwarven ones, with the only exception being if it needs a dwarf to pull a lever to start it.

It would be really cool if we got an explanation of the current ethic tags and gained some new ones, especially something beyond acceptable that would actually encourage entities to steal or whatever.

Just a question, what would happen to a creature that was covered in water in a freezing biome. For example, if I was an adventurer who could normally handle a freezing biome no problem, but I doused myself in water first, would the water freeze, and if so, would I take any damage, or just turn into some sort of abominable snowman?

This is just a question, at what skill level are military dwarves changed into champions, and I also heard about some method where you could stop a dwarf from becoming a champion by training in one weapon and then switching to another, if anyone has heard and understands this method, could they please explain it.

I think that something that would be really nice to be added is if adventure mode was affected by ethics, because currently, even if a race has murder set to acceptable, if you go into their civilization as one of their own race and kill another one, everyone in the civilization knows and comes to kill you.

This has probably been mentioned before, but in adventure mode you cannot remove weapons or armor from their respective racks, which can be really annoying when you are staring at a +adamantine plate mail+ that is just beyond your fingertips.

Something that I think would be cool would be if when something was encased in ice or obsidian, you could recover it by digging into the block. It would also be cool if a dwarf or pet was encased in ice, then you could dig out there ice encased body and use it as a statue.

P.S. It would be cool if statues were more specific, like iron dog statue, not just iron statue.

I was just wondering about what would happen if you took magma and flooded it across a sand floor, and then cut it off. Would the sand floor have then morphed into a glass floor from the heat? Because that would be really, really, cool.